TRIBAL MASK MAKING
you will need the following:
1) Air hardening clay (300g)
2) Roller
3) sharp blade
4) acrylic paint
5) former (utensil with good curvature)
6) wet cloth
Get Ready With All the Supplies You Will Need
we will be handling air drying clay which tends to set down in about 45-30 mins when exposed to air, so we should work fast and avoid wasting any time.
Knead Your Clay Properly to Smoothen It
This is to make sure that the clay is soft and flexible enough to work with and you may add some drops of water if you fell that the clay is not flexible enough.
Knead Your Clay Into a Ball
Roll and Flatten the Ball to Get a Flat Layer of Uniform Thickness and You May Cut the Shape You Require From This Layer
Prepare Your Form and Cover It With a Wet Cloth or Newspapers
now, place the mask layout on the form and play around with it.
To Join Clay
to join clay wet the two surfaces to be joint with water and scratch the surfaces so that it becomes mushy, and then attach the two surfaces.